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When you think of echolocation, you probably think of bats or dolphins. But echolocation has also been used as a way for blind people to navigate, too. Despite the skill’s usefulness, few blind peopl… [+2716 chars]
ByJet Propulsion LaboratoryJune 22, 2022 NASAs InSight Mars lander uses a seismometer to study the inner layers of Mars. Seismic signals from quakes change as they pass through different kinds of ma… [+5947 chars]
Wringing wet cloth in space: Astronaut demonstrates water's fascinating property Jun 23, 2022, 10:59 am2 min read A video showing astronaut Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, wringing a w… [+1703 chars]
Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features the Talampaya National Park in the La Rioja Province of Argentina. The photo was captured by an astronaut onboard the International Space… [+748 chars]
Asteroseismology - one of the most fascinating and sophisticated methods for measuring the mass of stars, and by extension, their age - can also be successfully used to reveal the characteristics of … [+5812 chars]
Research journals are being cloned online to scam scientists.Credit: MShieldsPhotos/Alamy Hijacked journals scam websites that impersonate legitimate titles have duped unsuspecting researchers out o… [+4258 chars]
This stunning photo of a dead California sea lion covered in colorful bat stars recently announced as the winner of a major wildlife photography award. (Image credit: David Slater) (opens in new tab… [+4108 chars]
Looks can be deceiving. The light from an incandescent bulb seems steady, but it flickers 120 times per second. Because the brain only perceives an average of the information it receives, this flicke… [+3997 chars]
Space watchers have spotted a giant sunspot triple the size of the Earth, expressing concern over its potential to beam medium-class (M-class) solar flares towards the Earth. NASA heliophysicst C. A… [+2184 chars]
For such a small insect, fire ants can be a very big problem. Invasive species of fire ant reached North America in the 1930s from Argentina and spread fast in southern states of the US, currently co… [+3852 chars]
image: How do you figure out how to alter a gene so that it makes a usefully different protein? The job might be imagined as interacting with a complex machine (at left) that sports a vast control pa… [+8583 chars]
